Proclamation Quotes

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions...

— George Washington

Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.

— Ann Coulter

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

— George Washington

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

— David Platt

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

— Abraham Lincoln

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

— Malcolm X

The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

— Pope Francis

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.

— Noam Chomsky

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time…

— Henry Miller

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

— Mary Robinson

An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

— Frank Bruno

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins,…

— Lyndon B Johnson

What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.

— O. S. Hawkins

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any…

— James Sinegal

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid,…

— Pope Francis

Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every revival worthy of the name begins in the restoration of the Word of God to the pulpit, and its fearless proclamation…

— Wilbur Moorehead Smith

“In her famous proclamation of 1858, Queen Victoria declared that it was the will of the crown saying, “Our subjects, of whatever…

— Anonymous

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow…

— Melville Fuller

The proclamation and witness of the Gospel are the first service that Christians can offer every person and the whole human race,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter…

— Chiang Kai-shek

Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say…

— Anne Provoost

The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian…

— Pope Francis

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract…

— Abraham Lincoln

War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity.…

— Jacque Fresco

For every Christian, the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated act. This is important. For every Christian the…

— Pope Francis

Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of…

— Robert Farrar Capon

Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In…

— Eric Foner

While our heart for social justice grows out from the gospel, social justice by itself will not communicate the gospel. We need…

— Darrin Patrick

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'.…

— Christopher Hitchens

The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.

— Dallin H. Oaks

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

— Francis James Grimke

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

— Abraham Lincoln

To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.

— William Henry Willimon

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

— Timothy Keller

Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.

— Karl Barth

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

— Ernesto Cardenal